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ROCK BAND 2: Use the new thread

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  • Johnny ChopsockyJohnny Chopsocky Scootaloo! We have to cook! Grillin' HaysenburgersRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    obolon84 wrote: »
    FyreWulff wrote: »
    Too bad my closest base is Offutt, aka home of Stratcom, aka good luck getting anywhere near that motherfucker.

    You could always take a class at the base through UNO :)

    Holy shit, other Omaha... uns? ans? God, we don't even have a good name for the city's citizenry, do we?

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  • mxmarksmxmarks Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    So I found an old mix CD I made in high school and popped it in.

    WHERE THE HELL IS LIVE IN THESE MUSIC GAMES.

    "Throwing Copper" would be fantastic album DLC. It's the kind of album that would sell huge with DLC. All the hits off that album! "I Alone", "Lightning Crashes", "All Over You", and so on. It was a HUGE album. My mix had "Lakini's Juice" off the Secret Samadhi album on it, and THAT would be a PERFECT rock band song.

    That band has such a great catalog, and really needs to show up soon.

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  • ErandusErandus Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Oh man.... White, Discussion.

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  • lionheart_mlionheart_m Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    You're forgetting their best song:

    Freaks.

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2008
    Motherfucker. I was playing PDA the other day and missed 1 note. 1 random fucking note in the middle.

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2008
    Live would be good. I want more prog rock though. Porcupine Tree please!

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  • Feels Good ManFeels Good Man Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I would just like to say that I was completely right, Sin Wagon owns in Rock Band

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDl4_oDu44M

    and yes, you are playing banjo for a lot of it


    (for the record, all of the country "pack" seems pretty fun on guitar after watching youtubes)

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2008
    Sin Wagon is a kickass song. It will be the only song I get out of that pack most likely.

    Raijin Quickfoot on
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  • FawstFawst The road to awe.Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Regarding the discussion of Live from the last page:

    You're all missing Mental Jewelry, their best album, start to finish.

    EDIT: Raijin, I did the same thing on PDA a while back, missing one random note. I am determined to make that song the first that I FC and gold star.

    Fawst on
  • lionheart_mlionheart_m Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    The first song I FC (Charlene DOES NOT count...) was Waves of Mutilation. Another altstrum fest but oh so fun.

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  • ErandusErandus Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Fawst wrote: »
    You're all missing Mental Jewelry, their best album, start to finish.
    You know, everyone said that but I just didn't see it. I preferred Throwing Copper.

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  • toolberttoolbert Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Erandus wrote: »
    Fawst wrote: »
    You're all missing Mental Jewelry, their best album, start to finish.
    You know, everyone said that but I just didn't see it. I preferred Throwing Copper.

    I'm on the same page with you. I think Throwing Copper was produced better and lyrically it blows Mental Jewlery out of the water (well...maybe not all of it). I thought Mental Jewelery had some great songs, but it was very...hippieish per say. Kind of like The Distance to Here; though that album did use the word "hooker" a lot.

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  • Smug DucklingSmug Duckling Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Wow, after watching all the country songs on guitar, I have to say they look REALLY fun.

    Probably getting them all.

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  • SchideSchide Yeoh! Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I would just like to say that I was completely right, Sin Wagon owns in Rock Band

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDl4_oDu44M

    and yes, you are playing banjo for a lot of it


    (for the record, all of the country "pack" seems pretty fun on guitar after watching youtubes)

    Yes, YES! Charting the banjo! Oh man I really hope they start getting more banjo songs to chart because it would be so much damn to play them even though some of them will be really hard to play.

    Can you imagine Bela Fleck? I can!

    EDIT: Haha, after actually listening to it that chart has you playing at least 3 instruments in the songs, the banjo, acoustic guitar, I think a steel guitar, and then even possibly an electric guitar for a part here and there.

    Schide on
  • BlackDragon480BlackDragon480 Bluster Kerfuffle Master of Windy ImportRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Damn, after looking at the guitar charts and a couple of the drum charts, I don't think I'll regret letting my sister and brother-in-law talk me into downloading the whole country pack (my bro-in-law defines redneck).

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  • Shady3011Shady3011 Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Not to be mean to the guy playing, but that was a terrible run. The song looks fun, but some people might mistake it as impossible from the way he played.

    Most likely picking some of these songs up since I'm looking for challenging and fun guitar tracks at the moment.

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  • ErandusErandus Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Eh... I'll pass.

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  • FawstFawst The road to awe.Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    toolbert wrote: »
    Erandus wrote: »
    Fawst wrote: »
    You're all missing Mental Jewelry, their best album, start to finish.
    You know, everyone said that but I just didn't see it. I preferred Throwing Copper.

    I'm on the same page with you. I think Throwing Copper was produced better and lyrically it blows Mental Jewlery out of the water (well...maybe not all of it). I thought Mental Jewelery had some great songs, but it was very...hippieish per say. Kind of like The Distance to Here; though that album did use the word "hooker" a lot.

    TC was definitely a better produced CD, but even with the hippie (or, as Ed Kowalczyk himself called it, Amish Rock) aspect, I think MJ is written better. Opinions and all, but I bought MJ after TC, and I loved it. I'm never good at interpreting lyrics, but seriously... wtf do the following things mean?

    Oh Hitler in your robe of truth
    My emptiness has built your altar
    And I've worshipped myself in you forever
    Until now

    or...

    The felix of your truth will always break it
    And the iris of your eye will always shake it
    And the armies, the armies I have created
    Will always hate it, will always bait you on

    Maybe I messed up a couple of words there, but really... I hate when lyrics are kinda just there. Which is why I hope to god that Bush is never in RB.

    I'm never alone, I'm alone all the time
    Are you at one, or do you lie
    We live in a wheel where everyone steals
    And when we rise it's like strawberry fields

    Fuck you, Gavin Rossdale. Fuck you.

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2008
    I've FC'd a lot of songs and gold starred probably close to a third of them. Is there an easy way to check if you've gold starred or do you just have to kind of remember?

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Most lyrics are pretty bullshit, really.

    Also, holy shit at Sin Wagon. Gotta look up the other guitar tracks.

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  • Shady3011Shady3011 Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I've FC'd a lot of songs and gold starred probably close to a third of them. Is there an easy way to check if you've gold starred or do you just have to kind of remember?

    The only real way to track gold stars is to play the song in world tour. They show up as singles across the various venues. Otherwise, you'll have to go by score cutoffs.

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  • Smug DucklingSmug Duckling Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I've FC'd a lot of songs and gold starred probably close to a third of them. Is there an easy way to check if you've gold starred or do you just have to kind of remember?

    The game's score tracking is retarded so you have to remember, or use ScoreHero.

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  • NocrenNocren Lt Futz, Back in Action North CarolinaRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I think scorehero Has the point to stars conversion on their site somewhere.

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  • BlackDragon480BlackDragon480 Bluster Kerfuffle Master of Windy ImportRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Sweet, just talked to AT&T and their doing an infrastructure upgrade in my area.

    So in a little over a month I'll be having a shiny new fiber line installed at my house and will no longer be on this shitty ass low-end DSL connection. New connection won't cost any more than my current one and I'll have up to 6 Mbps dedicated, I'll finally be able to carry on a legitimate conversation over Live, download shit without planning ahead or waiting all day, and I can actually put Netflix to good use with the NXE.

    I've been watching the Country Pack download for the last 15 minutes, and it's up to a whopping 23%. January 26th can't come soon enough.

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  • Santa ClaustrophobiaSanta Claustrophobia Ho Ho Ho Disconnecting from Xbox LIVERegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Then in a word: No. A combination of the above advice works, but the most reliable way is to manually track it and that just sucks. I thought RB1 was bad for not giving me any feedback as to how close I was to getting Gold Stars so that I'd know how much I needed to improve...

    Of course, now it doesn't help that no matter how good I currently am, I know I still need to get about forty million more points to rank toward the top of the leaderboards...

    Way to go, HMX!

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  • VThornheartVThornheart Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    So, before I go buying a ton of songs... let's say I play a lot at my friends' house, or I play a lot with my wife even (who has her own Live account, as you have to to play multiplayer it seems).

    When you play multiplayer with others, can you choose any of the songs that anyone among the players has? Or can you only use the songs from one specific player? Or are the downloads more system-specific rather than account-specific, so going over to my friends' house to play means that I rely on him having those songs no matter what?

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  • LunkerLunker Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    So, before I go buying a ton of songs... let's say I play a lot at my friends' house, or I play a lot with my wife even (who has her own Live account, as you have to to play multiplayer it seems).

    When you play multiplayer with others, can you choose any of the songs that anyone among the players has? Or can you only use the songs from one specific player? Or are the downloads more system-specific rather than account-specific, so going over to my friends' house to play means that I rely on him having those songs no matter what?

    It's system-specific, if I'm understanding you correctly. All of the players involved need to have individual access to DLC songs in order to play them online. So if you and your wife are on your 360 playing online with a friend on a second 360, then you need two copies of each song (one on each box). If someone in the group owns a song but someone else doesn't, it'll show up in the song selection menu but it'll be grayed out.

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  • ArikadoArikado Southern CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    As long as the person who owns the songs is signed in to the Xbox 360 that he downloaded them onto, everyone locally should be able to access them.

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  • VThornheartVThornheart Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Ahh, okay, cool deal.

    But, for example, if I'm playing on the SAME system with them, it goes by whatever's on that system? That'll work. =)

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  • ErandusErandus Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Ahh, okay, cool deal.

    But, for example, if I'm playing on the SAME system with them, it goes by whatever's on that system? That'll work. =)

    Correct. For local multiplayer, all the songs on that specific Xbox will be available. For internet multiplayer, only the songs that all X-boxes involved have will be available.

    If you and your wife are playing local multi, anything you've downloaded will be playable.
    If you are playing online, each individual xbox involved must have the song on it for it to be playable.

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  • MechanicalMechanical Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Heh, okay. The drums just clicked for me, but on occasion that damn kick drum throws me off. This is pretty awesome. Consistently snagging 4s on medium now.

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  • LunkerLunker Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Erandus wrote: »
    Ahh, okay, cool deal.

    But, for example, if I'm playing on the SAME system with them, it goes by whatever's on that system? That'll work. =)

    Correct. For local multiplayer, all the songs on that specific Xbox will be available. For internet multiplayer, only the songs that all X-boxes involved have will be available.

    If you and your wife are playing local multi, anything you've downloaded will be playable.
    If you are playing online, each individual xbox involved must have the song on it for it to be playable.

    As an aside, anyone playing with their wives or girlfriends should start every session by singing Charlene (I'm Right Behind You) to them. You've gotta start things off by setting the mood just right.

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  • cloudeaglecloudeagle Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I've found that when people are starting to get frustrated when struggling on difficult songs, Charlene is the perfect palate cleanser.

    On a totally unrelated note, wonder if we'll get any Christmas DLC this year. As in Christmas songs and stuff. Then again most attempts to create new Christmas songs result in crap.

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  • FawstFawst The road to awe.Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I think we need Transiberian Orchestra's Christmas song. That might be kinda cool.

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  • BlackDragon480BlackDragon480 Bluster Kerfuffle Master of Windy ImportRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Alright, downloaded the Country Pack and tried out all the songs on guitar, and I must say, I'm pleasantly suprised.

    All of them are downright fun as hell to play, and provide a great level of challenge without going overboard into Mike 'n Ike land (like a lot of the prog and metal DLC can). Sin Wagon is especially good fun. I was able to 5 star it on my first run and it's one of the few impossible tier DLC songs I can say that I'll be able to gold star with a little work.

    Just for fun I also sang that song on Hard, and could hardly keep a straight face and had my family cracking up, given the fact that a 26 year old hirsute male was singing about being a beer-swilling trailer trash slut.

    EDIT: I could totally go for some Trans-Siberian DLC. I'm a huge fan of Savatage (of which 2/3rds founded TSO) and TSO's work and it would be kick-ass. Although I would want Wizard of Winter for an instrumental, rather than the more recognized Sarajevo 12/24 (their revision of Carol of the Bells).

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  • VThornheartVThornheart Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Erandus wrote: »
    Ahh, okay, cool deal.

    But, for example, if I'm playing on the SAME system with them, it goes by whatever's on that system? That'll work. =)

    Correct. For local multiplayer, all the songs on that specific Xbox will be available. For internet multiplayer, only the songs that all X-boxes involved have will be available.

    If you and your wife are playing local multi, anything you've downloaded will be playable.
    If you are playing online, each individual xbox involved must have the song on it for it to be playable.

    Sweet, thanks! =)

    Let the purchasing of songs commence! =)

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  • FawstFawst The road to awe.Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Heheh Savatage... there was a guy I used to work with who would always randomly spout out "The thorazine... shuffle..." and do this weird "look at me, I'm whacky" movement with it. I still haven't heard the song, but that always got a chuckle.

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  • SchideSchide Yeoh! Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Fawst wrote: »
    Heheh Savatage... there was a guy I used to work with who would always randomly spout out "The thorazine... shuffle..." and do this weird "look at me, I'm whacky" movement with it. I still haven't heard the song, but that always got a chuckle.

    ?

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  • FawstFawst The road to awe.Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I'll check that out when I get home, no youtube love at work :\

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  • stratslingerstratslinger Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Fawst wrote: »
    I think we need Transiberian Orchestra's Christmas song. That might be kinda cool.

    Ummm... Which one? If I'm not mistaken, that ALL that TSO does is Christmas songs! They've got a few amazing instrumental ones (you're probably thinking of "Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12_24)", in fact). Most of the music they have that includes vocals though sounds like stuff being sung by Broadway musical performers - very dramatic and over the top, as opposed to very "metal" like the solos in ...Sarajevo...

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